Neowin News Feed for: Hammer

See the Nokia Lumia 900 getting hammered ... literally

John Callaham — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:52:20 +0000

A new video making the virual rounds shows the Nokia Lumia 900 not only getting hit with a hammer and nail on its screen but also being used as a hammer on a nail. Read more...

No schedule for Windows Server 2003 for Hammer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:05:40 +0000

OPTERON OPTIMISTS are about to have their hopes dashed. Many industry watchers had thought that Microsoft was merely being cautious when the 64bit version of Windows Server 2003 only claimed support for Itanium. It seems... Read more...

Nvidia's Hammer chipset details revealed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:34:50 +0000

Here are all the details that we know about these Nvidia chipsets for the Hammer that we knows so far. There will be one IGP version with a graphic chip on GPU codenamed... Read more...

AMD's Hammer could have dual cores?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:13:25 +0000

WHEN CPUS start appearing using 90 nanometer technology, it gives the chip companies a lot more transistors to play with. So we presume that is why AMD, in a white paper on its web site... Read more...

NVIDIA AMD Hammer drivers for Linux

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:58:19 +0000

Thanks username...The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set brings both accelerated 2D functionality and high performance OpenGL support to Linux x86 with the use of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs). These drivers provide optimized... Read more...

Hammer time in March/April

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 04:57:09 +0000

Yep. Thanks to Tony Fernando for mailing us with this story. AMD will introduce its Hammer architecture in March/April next year, its chief financial officer said at the Credit Suisse FB Tech... Read more...

Hammer the Memory

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:17:41 +0000

AMD ISN'T doing so well. It's losing money and having to lay off staff. One of the questions that keeps cropping up is, "why don't AMD release the Hammer now in the hope of pushing... Read more...

It's Official. Hammer to be named AMD Athlon™ 64

Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:40:04 +0000

Thanks to username for posting this in BPN At Comdex, AMD today announced it has selected "AMD Athlon 64" as the brand name for its next-generation processor for desktop and mobile PCs,... Read more...

AMD Hammer, Sledgehammer presentations arrive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:49:09 +0000

THE SLIDES presented at the AMD Developer Symposium held in October this year have now been placed on the AMD site. These are largely indepth presentations – the list includes IBM DB2 Universal Database for... Read more...

Via updates Hammer, Intel chipset roadmap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:57:56 +0000

THE LATEST VIA ROADMAPS indicate that the company is pressing ahead with its AMD and Intel chipsets. The firm will introduce the KM400, which includes an integrated "Castlerock" GFX (graphics) core, and preliminary benchmarks show... Read more...

Will Hammer be too late to save AMD?

Mon, 07 Oct 2002 05:59:23 +0000

It's tempting to include AMD among Gartner Dataquest chief analyst Garry Smith's chip industry "familiar names" who won't be here in six years' time. Smith's comments were reported this week in a Silicon Strategies report.... Read more...

AMD's Heye says Hammer has problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 08:03:36 +0000

A REPORT ON Digitimes quotes INQ t-shirt wearer Richard Heye as saying yes, the processor will hit the streets in Q1 of next year. That's because it still appears to be tweaking the verification of... Read more...

AMD delays the Hammer

Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:06:23 +0000

Seems sister sledge aint working to well - guess we'll just have to use Intels inferior chips :D. "Advanced Micro Devices has pushed out the release of its highly anticipated Hammer chip for... Read more...

Red Hat unfurls Hammer plans

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:36:32 +0000

Red Hat Software will bring out a version of its server software for the Hammer processor family from Advanced Micro Devices, as momentum for the chip builds. Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat, the... Read more...

AMD's memory-switching Hammer exposed

Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:16:46 +0000

Amd says the integrated memory controller on its forthcoming Hammer chips can be turned off, allowing the chips to use the controller of its accompanying chipset if necessary. Thus, inital chip shipments will work with... Read more...

AMD demo suggests Hammer in full swing

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:51:23 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices says Opteron, its forthcoming rival to Intel's Itanium 2 chip, is already catching on in the PC industry. AMD, which will introduce the processor early next year, demonstrated on... Read more...

AMD, Nvidia cooking up Hammer special?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 20 Apr 2002 07:29:55 +0000

Thanks to Heinrich-X from our BPN Forum WE'RE BEGINNING to hear whispers that just like AMD and Nvidia had their "snap" alliance last year, they are working together on something special for... Read more...

Hammer poll over - Hammer wins

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:35:58 +0000

We asked yesterday "Should AMD retain the Hammer CPU name?" Out of 5319 voters, 4434 said "yes", 392 said "no", and 493 said "Doesn't matter, fanboy". That means there's more "doesn't matter fanboys"... Read more...

AMD Hammer is just a codename

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:23:18 +0000

At the end of this year we'll see AMD's Clawhammer and next year Sledgehammer – we saw the introductions at IDF-time and of course at CeBIT more recently. This new technology that AMD... Read more...

Linux OS support speeds up for AMD's Hammer

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:00:15 +0000

ANYONE WHO DOUBTS that plans for the release of AMD's Hammer are not far advanced need look no further than a release from SUSE Labs. The labs said that 2.4.19pre4 based X86-64 linux kernel snapshot... Read more...

Hammer to land in October

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:22:32 +0000

There's some reasonably detailed snippets about AMD's plans up at AMD Zone, suggesting that the firm could well get its Clawhammer processor out in October, and saying that Barton is likely to be shelved. ... Read more...

AMD's Hammer In Action

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:38:34 +0000

Hammer? gunna get hammered? who knows- but it does look pretty cool. Check it out! As you've undoubtedly heard, AMD has announced that they have a working version of their... Read more...

AMD wields its Hammer

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:16:21 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices provided the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Hammer chip Tuesday. The company hopes to use the chip to challenge Intel on desktops and in servers. At meetings in San Francisco,... Read more...

AMD confirms first Hammer silicon out

Fri, 01 Feb 2002 02:14:27 +0000

AMD EXEC Ben Anixter presented some information about how his company is doing with its process technology this year and next, and said the firm has now successfully produced Hammer silicon. AMD is pleased with... Read more...

Intel will can Itanic if boy Hammer does too well

Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:32:29 +0000

We have beleived and have written for maybe two years that Intel is tirelessly working on its own version of X86-64 technology just in case two awful things happen - sales of its Itanic processor... Read more...

AMD pins 2002 hopes on Hammer

Fri, 09 Nov 2001 03:54:36 +0000

AMD'S analyst conference today revealed the extent to which the company believes its 64-bit "Hammer" architecture will benefit it next year. AMD luminaries on the stage included Jerry Sanders III+, Athlon and Hammer chip architect... Read more...

AMD's Hammer to smash Intel's plans

Wed, 17 Oct 2001 01:32:50 +0000

Chip firm AMD introduced hard details of its Hammer 64-bit family at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose yesterday and early indications are this one's a winner. The architecture Dirk Meyer and his team has... Read more...